The dairy industry is receiving greater
pressure to reduce its potential pollution to the
environment. As the demand grows for cleaner
streams, dairy operations will need to reduce
and control the nutrient and sediment ...

The impact of environmental regulation
on livestock production enterprises is, inevitably,
an increase in production costs. Producers
should recognize that these are the costs
of doing business and will probably have ...

Somatic Cell Count (SCC) affects productivity
of a dairy herd and, thus, potential profit.
Almost all SCC problems can be solved by
management. The DHIA SCC program is very
useful for evaluating the situation in a ...

An experiment was conducted to examine
the effects of GnRH on the secretion of FSH,
LH, estradiol, and progesterone in serum and
changes in ovarian structures. Dairy cows were
assigned randomly to receive either 100 ...

Blood neutrophils and pulmonary alveolar
macrophages isolated from calves at 3 and 6
wk of age were cultured in medium without
added vitamins or supplemented with vitamin
A, vitamin E, vitamin A and vitamin E, or ...

Holstein steer calves (n = 96) were on
experiment from 8 to 18 wk of age. Control
calves were fed a diet in which all supplemental
protein was from soybean meal; in the
experimental diet, part of the soybean meal ...

Diets containing soybeans roasted at different
temperatures were fed to calves to investigate
effects on growth and feed consumption. A
growth trial was conducted using 84 Holstein
calves from birth to 8 wk of age. The ...

Although there is a genetic antagonism
between yearly production per cow and reproduction,
analysis of Kansas Holstein herds
suggests that managers of higher producing
herds overcome this inverse relationship.
Higher ...

Two experiments were performed to
determine the influence of administering a
highly potent agonist of gonadotropin-releasing
hormone (Receptal) on various reproductive
characteristics in dairy cows. In Experiment ...